dress in drag and do the hula, not

I saw one too many black men in movies

paid to dress and act in drag, so I wrote this piece:

The proclamation of emasculation

signed by the image maker's cartel

show your feminine side

since you don't have a slit in the front

show your back side

cause you are not fit for the war no more

cause you hang your drawers

below your back and

you crack your face to say

I'm still a man.

who's to say,

some like tough love

it's not the look of love in your eyes

they are looking at anyway

manhoodies neatly folded

thrown to the curve

visible men, everyday men, 

show their tail bones in the street 

because the men of renown 

are so easily shown in dresses

it's funny, it's cute,

it will be the highlight of your career

everybody will remember you in a dress

so and so is funny looking like a honey

he makes a lot of money

that must be the look of success

to wear a dress and be bitch'n

I wanted to kill you when you smeared

shoe polish on your face

and made my likeness to dance

as if I were a puppet

your hand up my spine

now you treat my women like as your interest

and groan to see me in her clothes

and doing her things

snapping gum and fingers

and fussing with my mangled appearance

I hate myself and now my women too

I put on a girl garb, a girl face and vent

and use my male stupidity

I'm a better bitch than that bitch.

you get rid of me and her in me

keep her cause she is not her any more

It's like an old joke

you pull our pants down

give us a wedggie

we all laugh

it's the image seen by all

It's the image seen by all

the successful, the strong, the powerful male actor

the ones who's image represents us in media

wearing dresses, pretending to be bitches

what you are telling us we are

what we are to you

what you want us to be..........

discredited! disrespected! on display!

but it's meant to be funny.

400 years plus and you are still trying to

enslave us by any means necessary

wearing a dress is dissing our manhood

it is not funny

cause I know the joke

the punch line is the image.

the image that is seen by all.

It's just entertainment, right? No! Images convey powerful messages. I've been apologised to by many whites who assumed I was like the images of black folks they saw and internalized in the media. I have to remind them the black actors who did those things were paid to do them and do not represent us who are not following the script.

What was meant by the revolution will not be televised is that the images of us shown on TV will not match us in reality, unless we ourselves buy into those images. You can not continue to deal with us via the fantasy images on TV comedy, movies or news. That's just the truth of it.